The rendering and the rest of the stuff mentioned in the article reinforces that this is not for real.

A real developer, or at least one competent to make a project happen, would not let a "rendering" like that come out. If they wanted a conceptual illustration they'd pay the few thousand dollars to get a real one done, which isn't a lot to spend when the overall project is going to cost many millions, and when your press needs to inspire confidence in the project.


Without thinking too much about it, a very reasonable arrangement would be to have all the hotel and residential in one tower at the tip of the site, and with ground floor retail and parking filling out a low plinth on the rest of the site with communal amenities on top. Basically the same as trolley plaza but obviously with more consideration towards the street.